§ 76.62   Manner of carriage.

   (a) Cable operators shall carry the entirety of the program schedule of any
   television station (including low power television stations) carried by the
   system unless carriage of specific programming is prohibited, and other
   programming authorized to be substituted, under § 76.67 or subpart F of part
   76,  or  unless carriage is pursuant to a valid retransmission consent
   agreement  for the entire signal or any portion thereof as provided in
   § 76.64.

   (b)  Each digital television broadcast signal carried shall be carried
   without  material degradation. Each analog television broadcast signal
   carried shall be carried without material degradation and in compliance with
   technical standards set forth in subpart K of this part.

   (c) Each local commercial television station whose signal is carried shall,
   to the extent technically feasible and consistent with good engineering
   practice, be provided no less than the same quality of signal processing and
   carriage provided for carriage of any other type of standard television
   signal.

   (d) Each qualified local noncommercial educational television station whose
   signal is carried shall be provided with bandwidth and technical capacity
   equivalent to that provided to commercial television broadcast stations
   carried.

   (e) Each commercial broadcast television station carried pursuant to § 76.56
   shall include in its entirety the primary video, accompanying audio, and
   closed  captioning  data contained in line 21 of the vertical blanking
   interval and, to the extent technically feasible, program-related material
   carried  in  the  vertical  blanking interval or on subcarriers. Where
   appropriate and feasible, operators may delete signal enhancements, such as
   ghost-canceling, from the broadcast signal and employ such enhancements at
   the system headend or headends.

   (f) Each qualified local NCE television station carried pursuant to § 76.56
   shall include in its entirety the primary video, accompanying audio, and
   closed  captioning  data contained in line 21 of the vertical blanking
   interval and, to the extent technically feasible, program-related material
   carried in the vertical blanking interval or on subcarriers, that may be
   necessary  for  receipt  of  programming by handicapped persons or for
   educational or language purposes.

   (g) With respect to carriage of digital signals, operators are not required
   to carry ancillary or supplementary transmissions or non-program related
   video material.

   (h) If a digital television broadcast signal is carried in accordance with
   § 76.62(b) and either (c) or (d), the carriage of that signal in additional
   formats does not constitute material degradation.

   [ 58 FR 17362 , Apr. 2, 1993, as amended at  59 FR 62345 , Dec. 5, 1994;  66 FR 16553 , Mar. 26, 2001;  73 FR 6054 , Feb. 1, 2008]

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